Higher Ed · CTE
Building one of NC's first associate-degree AI programs
How the NSF GAIT grant is shaping curriculum, transfer pathways, and industry partnerships at scale — what we got right, what we'd redo, and what other community colleges should steal.
Audience fit
Higher-ed conferences, NSF program meetings, CTE policy summits
You'll walk away with
- The three biggest curriculum gaps when AI meets a community-college IT pathway
- Industry-partnership structures that actually serve students (with Red Hat and Palo Alto as examples)
- How to write transfer-friendly AI courses that bachelor's programs will accept
Workforce · Research
What AI is doing to the entry-level IT job — and what to teach instead
Field data and ongoing research on how generative AI is reshaping help desk, junior cloud, and analyst roles. Where the entry-level door is narrowing, where it's widening, and what curriculum has to change before the cohort graduates.
Audience fit
Workforce-board meetings, community-college conferences, instructional-design summits
You'll walk away with
- Which entry-level IT tasks are already automated and which are next
- What skills now matter more (and which credentials matter less)
- How to redesign a foundational IT course in one semester
Ethics · AI · WorkshopNSF
Would You Pull the Lever? Ethical dilemmas in the age of AI
An NSF-funded interactive seminar. The classic Trolley Problem becomes a frame for the real ethical decisions inside self-driving cars, autonomous systems, and AI-mediated work. The audience votes, debates, and walks out with a vocabulary for the hard cases.
Audience fit
General-audience seminars, ethics symposia, AI literacy programs, Honors colleges
You'll walk away with
- A working frame for AI ethics that holds up after the workshop ends
- Five live scenarios mapped from the Trolley Problem to current AI systems
- How to run the workshop with your own audience
L&D · Industry
Modernizing technical training: ADDIE to Agile at the speed of SaaS
Walks through the transformation we ran at VMware — moving a 16-course technical portfolio from waterfall ADDIE to a SAM-based, sprint-driven model — and what to copy, what to skip, and what failed quietly the first time.
Audience fit
Enterprise L&D, training-content leaders
You'll walk away with
- The minimum viable Agile-for-ID workflow
- Three failure modes in the transition (and how to spot them early)
- How to keep design quality from collapsing under sprint pressure
Partnerships · CTE
Industry partnerships that actually serve students
Red Hat and Palo Alto Networks as case studies. How to structure a partnership that gives students real exposure without turning the curriculum into a vendor brochure.
Audience fit
Community-college leadership, workforce boards, corporate L&D
You'll walk away with
- The four partnership structures we tried and which one stuck
- Contract terms that protect curricular independence
- What partners actually want in return (it's not what you think)
Analytics · L&D
xAPI and learning analytics for technical training programs
How we instrumented a community-college cybersecurity program with xAPI from labs and SCORM modules, what it told us, and how to start without a six-figure platform.
Audience fit
L&D analytics teams, LMS administrators, community-college IT
You'll walk away with
- A minimum xAPI stack you can stand up in a semester
- Three analytics questions xAPI answers that grades don't
- The award-winning Bluetooth-beacon xAPI module from my CPI Security days, dissected
Career · Pedagogy
From the music classroom to the server room: an instructional design career through-line
A keynote on the through-line from music education to community-college department chair. What music ed teaches you about teaching, and why the move into technical training was less of a leap than it looked.
Audience fit
Career-transition events, ID community keynotes, educator gatherings
You'll walk away with
- The three pedagogical instincts music educators bring into tech
- When the career change actually started (it's earlier than you'd guess)
- One thing every educator should steal from professional musicians